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Shotwell, Yorba

Yorba Backports Project announced

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Shotwell ST

Today, the Yorba Foundation is proud to unveil our Yorba Backports Project.  The Backports Project, codenamed Project DeLorean, brings the simplicity and ease of use of Shotwell, our open-source photo manager, to a number of legacy (but still loved) operating systems.

Our automatic porting technology uses evolutionary Markov neural trees to automatically and “intelligently” port Vala and GCC software from a modern software stack to a legacy software stack.

Neo Shotwell
Here’s a list of some of the ports we’re going to be offering, all of which will be available for download later today.

Yorba founder Adam Dingle said the Backports Project “…[breaks] new ground for Yorba, with key synergies transforming existing paradigms.  The Backports Project leverages our brand’s bleeding-edge reputation for seamless innovation integrated with rich media solutions and productized frameworks for the enterprise.”

Shotwin for Workgroups
This historic milestone is also the first time X.org and Gtk have been ported to many of these systems.

* Shotwell //e for Apple //e
* Shotwell ST for GEM on the Atari ST
* Shotwell/2 for OS/2
* Shotwell for Workgroups for Windows for Workgroups 3.1
* MacShotwell for System 7
* Shotbench for Amiga Workbench
* Shotwell VMS for MicroVAX systems
* NeoShotwell for NeoGeo arcade cabinets
* geoShotwell for GEOS

Shotwell VMS
It’s important to note that some features didn’t make it into the first version of the backport due to time constraints.  Notably, we did not include video thumbnails, due to the number of Totem dependencies.

The work on the Yorba Backports Project took many months for our interns to complete.  Now that the project is finished, let’s all congratulate our interns and welcome them back into the world and out of the basement office we had locked them in.

Announcements, Shotwell

Shotwell 0.9 Released

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Shotwell graffitiYorba has released version 0.9 of Shotwell, our digital photo organizer.  This release includes the following enhancements:

* New search bar can filter by media type, rating, and text matching. (Titles, filename, tag and event names are searched.)
* TIFF support
* Extensible plugin framework for Web publishing and slideshow transitions.
* Print multiple photos, and multiple photos per page.
* Configurable user directory pattern during import.
* Edit multiple photo titles at once.
* Improved rendering of underexposed RAW photos.
* Various improvements and bug fixes.

And as an added bonus, we’ve also updated our Gexiv2 library with an enhancement to the logging system

Download a source tarball from the Shotwell home page at:
http://www.yorba.org/shotwell/

Download a source tarball from the gexiv2 home page at:
http://trac.yorba.org/wiki/gexiv2

Binaries of both packages for Ubuntu Maverick are available at Yorba’s Launchpad PPA:
https://launchpad.net/~yorba/+archive/ppa

Shotwell

Final call for testing: Shotwell 0.9.0

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Shotwell 0.9.0 is in the final stages of
development and we need your help in shaking out any bugs you can find. 
We plan on shipping soon (one week or so) and can use your help.  Now’s
the time to find that last little critter that’s causing Shotwell to
hang, crash, or otherwise act funny.

The new features and improvements for 0.9.0 include:

– A search bar that can filter by media type, rating, and text matching (titles, filename, tag and event names are searched)
– TIFF support
– Extensible plugin framework for Web publishing and slideshow transitions (all but one Web publisher has been ported)
– Print multiple photos (including printing multiple photos per page)
– Configurable user directory pattern during import
– Edit multiple photo titles at once
– Improved rendering of underexposed RAW photos
– Various improvements and bug fixes

If you’re interested in testing this newest
version of Shotwelll, check out the working trunk
and try it yourself.  Instructions are here:

http://yorba.org/shotwell/install/#source

Remember, this is pre-release software.  You might consider backing up your library before starting:

http://trac.yorba.org/wiki/Shotwell/FAQ#HowcanIbackupmyShotwelllibrary

Post your bugs on our Trac server at http://trac.yorba.org/newticket

Thanks!

Announcements, Shotwell

Shotwell 0.8.1 Released

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Yorba has released Shotwell 0.8.1, an update to our digital photo manager for GNOME. This release provides bug fixes, support for new video and RAW formats, and translation updates. Specific enhancements include:
  • Fixes a problem where Shotwell could crash unexpectedly at startup or when reading/writing metadata to files.
  • Fixes a problem where Shotwell could hang when importing voice-annotated videos.
  • Fixes a problem where Shotwell failed to import date and time information for some camera-generated MP4 videos.
  • Shotwell can now delete video files from camera memory.
  • Shotwell now supports the 3GP video format common on mobile phones and RAW files with the SRW suffix generated by Samsung cameras.
  • Numerous translation fixes and updates.
We recommend that all users upgrade.
You can download a source tarball from the Shotwell home page at:
or grab a binary for Ubuntu Maverick via Yorba’s Launchpad PPA at:
Announcements, Shotwell

Shotwell 0.8.0 and gexiv2 0.2.2 released

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Yorba has released Shotwell 0.8.0, an update to our digital photo
organizer.  This release includes some great new features:

  
* Video support for most major video formats, including importing them off of camera and adding them to events and tags.

  * Publish videos to major Web services, including YouTube, Flickr, Facebook, and PicasaWeb.

  * Runtime monitoring of library directory and auto-import of newly created files.

  * Background writing of metadata (tags, titles, ratings, orientation, and exposure date) to master files (user-configurable).

  * Flagging photos for batch operations.

  * Set multiple photos to desktop background slideshow.

  * Numerous translation updates.

  * Various bug fixes.

It’s highly recommended all users upgrade.

In addition, Yorba has released an update to our Exiv2 GObject
wrapper library, gexiv2 0.2.2.  (This library is a requirement for
Shotwell.)  This update fixes a bug where a photo file with malformed
EXIF could cause a crash.  It’s highly recommended that all users
upgrade.

Download a source tarball from the Shotwell home page at:
http://www.yorba.org/shotwell/

Download a source tarball from the gexiv2 home page at:
http://trac.yorba.org/wiki/gexiv2

Binaries for Ubuntu Lucid (gexiv2) and Maverick (Shotwell, gexiv2) are available at Yorba’s Launchpad PPA:
https://launchpad.net/~yorba/+archive/ppa

Announcements, Shotwell

Shotwell 0.7.2 and gexiv2 0.2.1 released

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Yorba has released Shotwell 0.7.2, an update to our digital photo
organizer.  This release includes crucial fixes and translation updates.  It’s highly recommended that all
users upgrade.

This release includes the following:

  * Fixed major startup problem when the user’s Pictures directory is actually
    a symbolic link.
  * Fixed potential crasher when the user’s Pictures directory contains a
    large number of subdirectories.
  * No longer asking if copying or linking if importing from Pictures directory
    (which will always be linked).
  * Fixed update problem when using an external editor on a photo that was
    edited externally in an earlier session.
  * Various bug fixes.
  * Updated translations.

In addition, Yorba has released an update to our Exiv2 GObject wrapper library, gexiv2 0.2.1.  (This library is a requirement for Shotwell.)  This update fixes a bug where a photo file with malformed EXIF could cause a crash.  It’s highly recommended that all users upgrade.

Download a source tarball from the Shotwell home page at:
http://www.yorba.org/shotwell/

Download a source tarball from the gexiv2 home page at:
http://trac.yorba.org/wiki/gexiv2

Binaries for Ubuntu Lucid and Maverick are available at Yorba’s Launchpad PPA:
https://launchpad.net/~yorba/+archive/ppa